Vulture engineering help

[Aelin Galathynius]

I've just started unlocking a few engineers and want to get an idea of what's best to go with for the vulture.

I mostly use it for bounty hunting.

I guess I would need to overcharge the power plant first to open up options for everything else as it's already over the limit on power.

The shield is a bit weaker than I would really like which can be a problem when taking on a wing of 3, other than that it generally does ok in a high res, I tried a haz res the other day and had to run before destroying even one ship though.

What would be the best way to engineer this?

Current build https://eddp.co/u/2N97NfEr

[WRONGTURN]

Not sure if this is your only ship or not,, but if it is........for quality of lifes sake,,,,,the frame shift drive should be the first thing to engineer.. but if you have something else , such as an aspx or dbx you might swap SOME modules onto a ship with better range to have things modded.

[Aelin Galathynius]

I've also got a type 7, a cobra 3 and an asp, when I need to get somewhere I use the type 7 and then ship the vulture.

Each ship has its own purpose, the vulture only really jumps between a station and a res so the fsd isn't an issue. It's only used for combat so the fsd isn't really a priority for engineering.

[Turd Ferguson]

Originally posted by WRONGTURN:

Not sure if this is your only ship or not,, but if it is........for quality of lifes sake,,,,,the frame shift drive should be the first thing to engineer.. but if you have something else , such as an aspx or dbx you might swap SOME modules onto a ship with better range to have things modded.

Vultures have power issues. If its purely a combat build you might want to go with fast boot so you can have it shut down when you deploy hardpoints amd power on quickly when you retract them to free up power for combat. You can still use the deep charge experimental effect and get a little more range but you only need to jump 1 system in a combat ship.

[Aelin Galathynius]

Somehow I forgot to include the link before, I posted the link to the current build at the top.

[brazorf]

Im flying a vulture since a bit and i hated it so badly at first. Now i think it does an awesome combat ship. What makes the difference, and i mean a lot of difference, is the upgrades you make on it. So before you focus on engineering your ship, did you do A-rate everything?

EDIT: sorry the link wasnt there when i posted my answer. Listen, do not fly a vulture with C thrusters, at least if you plan to do cz. A thrusters is like flying another ship.

[Aelin Galathynius]

Originally posted by brazorf:

Im flying a vulture since a bit and i hated it so badly at first. Now i think it does an awesome combat ship. What makes the difference, and i mean a lot of difference, is the upgrades you make on it. So before you focus on engineering your ship, did you do A-rate everything?

You can't A rate everything on the vulture, the power plant doesn't allow it.

[WRONGTURN]

Originally posted by Arya Stark:

Originally posted by brazorf:

Im flying a vulture since a bit and i hated it so badly at first. Now i think it does an awesome combat ship. What makes the difference, and i mean a lot of difference, is the upgrades you make on it. So before you focus on engineering your ship, did you do A-rate everything?

You can't A rate everything on the vulture, the power plant doesn't allow it.

of course you can,, if you engineer it .
edit : I take that back,, I think I have 2 A rated boosters and 2 D rated boosters on it.but I do have prismatic sheilds on it tho..

[Aelin Galathynius]

Originally posted by WRONGTURN:

Originally posted by Arya Stark:

You can't A rate everything on the vulture, the power plant doesn't allow it.

of course you can,, if you engineer it .

Wait it actually increases the power enough for a full A rating?

I wasn't expecting that much of an increase.